VISITORS to the Moon could race across the planet’s surface in an “extreme” car dropped there by Elon Musk. That’s the vision of a Nasa-backed company that is working on a ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

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February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

He is killed by a fellow prisoner in 1994. 1559: Coronation of Elizabeth I of England. 1610: Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter. 1794: US President George Washington ...

They are not to scale but are in their relative positions. Credit: NASA/JPL Galileo Galilei’s telescopic discovery of Jupiter’s four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

On Jan. 7, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei peered through his newly improved 20-power homemade telescope at the planet Jupiter. He noticed three other points of light near the planet, at ...

TEMPLE, Texas — Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei advanced the field of astronomy on Jan. 7, 1610 - 415 years ago from Tuesday - by discovering the existence of Jupiter's moons. His discovery ...

And yet, this was the case with Galileo’s discovery of Jovian satellites, which took shape from January 7, 1610. Astronomical changes were brewing at the end of 1609. With the telescope having ...

Since its discovery in 1610 by Galileo, the rings of Saturn have enchanted us for centuries. Remarkably, we've visited Saturn before. Stunning photographs taken from the Cassini space probe have ...